Sometimes
I just wish to
live a normal life, dealing with the pressures of high school, and
boys, and acne, but, no I have to live with flawless, heartless
killing assassins, and to top it off, I’m next in line to
rule
this whole mafia, but the thing is, I want no part of it. Well
that’s
what happens, when you’re adopted into the assassasin life, I
always knew I was adopted, and plus I have a photographic memory, so
I remember everything.

I
guess I should be
grateful, I mean I’ve gained a best friend.

Anyway,
I’m staring
at the ceiling, but then I had a really bad feeling, so I went out of
bed, and looked for my dad, I went into his office to find him on the
ground, blood surrounding him, he’s dead.

I
looked to the right, and
saw Eve smiling, and wiping the blood off of her katana.

“Eve?”

“Hey
sis, I don’t
know why you hate killing so much.” She replied.

She’s
sick. Killing
is the most disgusting feeling to crave, but Ever lost her sanity at
the tender age of 9, watching our father murder someone, in the
harshest, cruelest way possible, but I think what triggered her
insanity was when she was 13, that one day when I heard screaming,
and she came out in tears, and blood, and told me he beat her, I knew
she was lying.

“Eve,
you’re
sick, we need to get you to a doctor, we need to-“

“NO!
NO MORE
DOCTORS!!!” She yelled.

I
walked towards her, as
her smile faded, and her eyes flashed with anger.

“He
deserved to die!”
she yelled.

“y-you
don’t
know what he did, just STAY BACK!” she yelled

All
of a sudden her Katana
was plunged into my stomach. I’m gasping for air, and Eve has
a
look of fear, and regret mixed with anger displayed on her face, and
she was shaking.

“N-no.”
she
muttered

She
crashed through the
window fleeing.

I
remove the Katana from my
stomach, and I stagger to me and Blake’s special spot.

He
turned around, while
smiling, but his smile faded, and then I collapsed to the ground.

Chapter
1

Blake
Tanaka

“You
have to help her.” I pleaded to my mother.

“Isn’t
she from the Suzuki Clan?” She asked.

I
nodded. “I don’t know…” she
replied.

“Mom,
please.” I begged.

I
laid her down on the bed, and then my mother began to clean her
wounds.

“Do
you know how this happened?” she asked.

I
shook my head, and told her everything I knew. She nodded in
reply.

She
finished cleaning Scarlett’s wound.
“She’s
going to be alright, it might take a while before she wakes
up.”
Mom said.

She
then left the room, leaving me staring intently at a pale
Scarlett waiting for her to wake up, I didn’t eat, I
didn’t
sleep, just waited.

‘Who
did this to you, Scar?’ I thought.

Hours,
and hours passed by, and eventually, I didn’t sleep,
I just wanted her to open her eyes.

I
look at the clock, 6:00 AM, 12 hours.

“Blake?
Sweetie, I made breakfast.” My mom said.

“I’m
not hungry.” I said.

I
just sat there, her eyes fluttered open, she took in her
surroundings, and shot up, but lied back down in pain.

“Scarlett?”
I asked.

“W-where
am I?” she asked.

“You’re
at my house, I didn’t know where else to
take you, my mom fixed you, don’t worry she won’t
tell
anyone.” I explained. She nodded.

“How
long was I unconscious?” she asked.

“Two
days.”

“Please
tell me, you weren’t awake for two days.”

“If
I’d be lying.” I replied.

“BLAKE!”
she yelled.

“What,
you can’t blame me for being worried.” I
sighed, and then asked.

“Who
did this to you?” I asked.

Scarlett
immediately paled.

“Scar,
who did this to you?” I asked.

“E-Eve.”
She replied, looking down.

“What!?”
I asked.

“She
went crazy, and she killed my mom, but she said it was
an accident, then my dad was in a pool of his own blood, and Eve was
in his chair, with her legs crossed, wiping the blood off of it,
while smiling, I confronted her, and said that she needs a doctor,
and then she became upset, and then I walked towards her, and she
said she he deserved to die for what he did to her, and she told me
to stay back, she stabbed me in the stomach, but she regretted it
immediately, then she ran away.”She explained.

She
then looked deep into my eyes, and told me, “We need to
get out of here.”

“What
do you mean?” I asked, slightly confused.

“I
mean, we need to get out of here, like we could start a
new life in Florida.” She explained.

“Are
you sure, I mean we’re only 16, we’re just
minors, we can’t buy a house.” I said.

“Yeah,
I know, but we have to find Eve first.”
She replied.

But
finding a girl that knows how to kill someone in a 100
different ways, is easy… I thought sarcastically.

“I
know what you’re thinking.” Scarlett said.

“Yeah,
I know, it’s going to be hard, but we need to
find somewhere to live first.” Scarlett said.

I
nodded.

“I’m
going to go take a shower.” I told her.

“Okay.”

I
walk into the shower, and let the hot water fall down my back.

I
turn off the water, dry up, and put on my clothes, but I
realized I forgot my shirt.

So
I walked out, towel-drying my hair.

“I
uh forgot my shirt.”

She
just nodded, and kept staring.

So
I decided to joke around, so I said, “You like what you
see?”

“Yeah…”

I
felt my face light up, and she literally turned red.

I
quickly put my shirt on.

Scarlett
quickly got up, and started to leave.

“W-where
are you going?” I asked.

“I
have to get my stuff.” She replied.

“Oh.”
I said.

She
raised an eyebrow at me, and then walked away.

‘Does
she like me? No way!’ I thought

‘You
know you like her.’ My brain argued.

‘N-no,
I don’t’ I replied.

‘Yes,
you do, you loooooooove her! You loved her ever since
the day you two first met.’

“Ugh.”
I said, and laid down.

Scarlett
then walked in, and asked, “You ready?”

“Oh,
no..” I said.

“No
problem, I’ll help you pack.” She said.

I
nodded in reply, and we began emptying out drawers, since we
really don’t have a lot of things, we just took them with us.
We had to dress like everyone else, to blend in, instead of our usual
dark clothes, I wore blue T-shirt, and jeans, and Nike.

“You
guys have fun outside; you deserve to live like normal
teenagers.” She insisted them to go outside

They
had fun.

“This
is nice, living like a normal teen without the
pressures of the assassin life.” Scarlett said.

“Hey
look a playground.” Blake acknowledged.

She
smiled, and got onto the swings, then had a competition on who
could go the highest, and jump off.

They
jumped, but it didn’t really work out well, Scarlett
ended up falling on Blake.

“Pizza’s
here!” Diana yelled.

They
then got up, and went inside.

As
Diana opened the box, simply backing away knowing that they
would dive in. Blake and Scarlett ate about 5 slices.

“Hey,
you guys are going to school tomorrow.” Diana
suggested.

“But
we don’t have to go to school.” Scarlett
replied.

“I
know, but you guys have to blend in.” Diana
replied.

They
nodded in reply.

“It’s
getting late, we should probably head to bed.”
Blake suggested.

“It’s
like 6:00, this is why I hated the assassasin
life.” Diana said.

Scarlett
shrugged, and got ready for bed.

Scarlett
started to think about everything she’s been
through, the training, the education, the pain.

‘The
loss of my mom, and how my dad… Brian, my real
father, I always knew that the man I lived with wasn’t my
real
father, I knew him for a little while, but he died, at least
that’s
what I thought.’ Scarlett thought.

Chapter
3

Eve
Suzuki

I
can’t believe, I
stabbed Scarlett, sure she’s alive, and well, but I still
feel
so bad, but Dad deserved it, he’s
not worth being called Dad.
Jasper deserved to die, after what he did to me, and tried to do to
Scarlett.
Scar’s right, I do need help. I need to get her out
of the picture, she wants nothing to do with the assassasin
life, but
the only help I need is her help. I got out of my hiding spot, and
tried to get out of the area, this
place is crawling with assassins.
I started to walk, and a figure came behind me.

“Eve.”

“What
do you
want?” I asked.

“You
know what or who
I want.”

“Well,
you’re
not getting her, she deserves to live a normal life, if you go
anywhere remotely near Scarlett, I’ll kill you,
I’ve done
it before, and I’ll do it again, Monica.” I said.

“Oh,
Eve you
seriously think I want Scarlett, but let me warn you if she gets in
the way, don’t think that I won’t kill her, before
you
have time to save her.”

I
was about to object, but
she disappeared.

I
punched a wall. I have to
save Scarlett, it might be the only way, I might get her forgiveness,
for everything I’ve done.

Chapter
4

Scarlett
Suzuki

All
I saw was darkness, and
I could’ve sworn all the deaths I’ve witnessed
flashed
before my eyes. Innocent people caught in the crossfire of Terrorist
vs. Assassasin, or Assassasin vs. Assassasin, or just the killings of
business leaders that were at the top of every hit list, and one
death that has haunted me since I was eight.

Then
my adoptive parents,
and my birth parents, I was adopted into the assassin, technically.

I
also have a photographic
memory, once I see something; I can’t forget it, even if I
try.

So
everything I’ve
been through became a nightmare.

“Scar,
Scarlett wake
up.”

My
eyes fluttered open, and
I saw Blake leaning over me.

“No,
I don’t
want to go.” I muttered.

“Come
on.” He
said, while pulling me by my arms.

“Go;
take a shower,
so I can wrap your stomach in gauges.” He said.

I
quickly took a shower,
and put on a tank top, and jeans, and I lifted it above my stomach,
under my ribs, he wrapped the gauges around my stomach.

“Thanks,”
I
said, while pulling the shirt down the rest of the way, and putting
on my navy blue v-neck.

“Good
morning you
two.” Aunt Di said.

“Good
Morning.”
I replied.

“So
what do you
usually eat for breakfast?” She asked.

“Oatmeal,
but it was
never good.” Blake explained.

“Well
I made
pancakes.” She said.

They
were the most
delicious thing I’ve ever eaten, homemade chocolate chip
pancakes.

“When
you’re
done, I’ll drive you two to school.” She said.

We
nodded, because our
mouths were full of pancakes.

Afterwards
I brushed my
teeth, and raced down the stairs.

“Ready?”
he
asked.

“Yeah,
I’m
ready for the pressures of the 11th
grade.”I replied.

We
got into the car, and
drove to school.

While
we were in the car,
Aunt Diana was listening to the news.

“Breaking
News, there
have been numerous deaths appearing around the state of Florida, the
killer leaves no evidence, but leaves an M
in their blood.”

“What
are you talking about, he’s my friend, if I
do that I’ll hurt his feelings.” I whined.

“Feelings?
Assassins aren’t supposed to have
feelings; I guess I’ll kill you, so you can see if you would
still have any feelings left in you.” She said. She grabbed
her
sword, and missed me nearly by an inch. We were fighting, she had me
on the ground, she lunged towards me, I pushed off with my feet on
her stomach, which caused her to fall over the cliff, I quickly
retaliated, and grabbed her arms, and tried to pull her up.
“Don’t
worry, I won’t let you fall.” I said. But she let
go of
my arms. “NO!” I yelled.

I
sat at that cliff, my body beaten and bruised, a couple from
the Tanaka clan, came and saw me, my face was wet from tears falling
down my face, because I wasn’t able to save her, and because
of
the physical pain. “Hey, what happened?” they asked.

“I-I
couldn’t save her, I tried to, but I
couldn’t.” I said, between sobs.

“Save
who?”

“Monica.”
I replied.’

“Scar,
we’re
here.” Blake said.

We
got out of the car, and
walked inside.

“Hi,
welcome to
Jackson High School, you must Scarlett and Blake. Here are your
schedules.” The welcoming committee said, and handed us our
schedules. We had the same classes, which was convenient.

“Hi,
I’m
Donna.” She seemed nice, but I was getting this really bad
vibe
from her, I looked over to her, and realized she was batting her eyes
at Blake. She looked familiar, everything reminded me of someone, but
I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. She is NOT hitting in
him, so what if I’m jealous.

“So,
you two
related?” she asked.

“No,
he’s my
best friend.” I replied.

Her
eyes showed fury, and
disappointment. “Oh well see you later.” She said
walking
away.

“What
was that?”
Blake asked.

“She
was totally
hitting on you, gosh sometimes you can be so oblivious.” I
said.

“Are
you jealous?”
he asked, with a smirk on his face.

I
felt my cheeks turn beet
red.

“I-I
am not jealous.”
I replied.

“Sure
you aren’t.”
he said.

“Whatever.”

We
walked to homeroom, Mrs.
Bradford.

“Class,
we have two
new students today, Scarlett Suzuki, and Blake Tanaka, be
nice.”
She warned. We made our way to our seats in the back. The teacher
began her lessons on algorithms.

~Psst.~

I
looked to my left to see
a note being passed to me.

“Here,
it’s
from him.” A girl said, pointing to a brunette in the far
corner.

~Hey,
I’m Kyle,
you’re really pretty. ~

Oh
God, I can’t
believe how forward these guys are.

I
sort of scanned the note,
maybe to see a secret message, but I got nothing, just a regular
note.

~Um,
thank you.~ I threw
the note back to him.

~Uh,
so well, do you want
to go out sometime? ~

Seriously,
I just got
here.

~
Um, well I can’t,
you seem nice, but I kind of like someone else, sorry. :/ ~ I wrote
back.

~Oh…~

Mrs.
Bradford passed out
the worksheets; I took one look at the board, soaked in all the
information, and finished my worksheet. I raised my hand, and so did
Blake.

“Yes?”
she
asked.

“I’m
done.”

Yes,
Blake?”

“I’m
done too.”

Everybody
stared at us, as
we walked up to the front to turn in the paper.

Afterwards,
I sat t here
watching everyone do their work, and it was so boring, this is
why I’m not in school.

~RIIING~

Finally
class is over, but
school isn’t. Why!?

Blake
caught up with me in
the hallway.

“Hey”
he said.

“Oh,
hey.”

“So,
I saw you
passing notes with that Kyle guy.”

“Oh,
it was nothing,
but he asked me out.” I said. Blake looked so heartbroken.

“But
I said no.”
he looked a lot happier.

“Oh,
why?” he
asked.

“Because,
I have
someone else in mind.” I said looking straight into his
chocolate brown orbs.

He
gulped.

~RIIING~

“Crap!”
I
whispered. I grabbed his hand, and we ran to our next class.

I
opened the door, and a
few girls had wide eyes, while others just smiled or smirked at us.
The guys on the other hand, were staring angrily at Blake. I realized
I was still holding his hand, I was about to let go, but he held my
hand tighter. I felt the blush creeping onto my face.

The
teacher introduced us
to the class. I sat by a girl, blonde hair, green eyes.

“So,
are you and
Blake dating?”

“N-no,
we’re
not dating.” I said, while my face turns red.

“But
you like him,
and he likes you.” She said.

“What?
Pshhh, no he
doesn’t like me.” I said.

“Yes
he does, in the
beginning of class, you were holding hands, and when you were about
to let go, he held on tighter.”

I
stayed silent. I looked
to my left, and a guy just shrugged his shoulders.

“Sheila.”
She
said, putting out her hand.

“Scarlett.”
I
replied, shaking her hand slowly.

“You
so like him.”
She said smirking at me.

“It’s
okay;
you’re not the only one who has a crush on their best
friend.”

“Oh?
So, who’s
your crush?” I asked.

“Spencer.”
She
admitted, blushing.

I
looked over to Spencer,
while he was doing his work.

He
looked up, I smiled, he
looked kind of confused, and so I pointed to Sheila, and mouthed
‘Do
you like her?’

He
started to blush, and
shook his head ferociously.

‘Liar!’
I
mouthed.

‘It’s
not like
she likes me back.’ He assumed.

‘You
don’t know
that.’ I mouthed back.

Blake
looked slightly
confused.

The
teacher was going on,
and on, how they didn’t do enough work, and all that mamma
jamma. She literally complained for an hour and a half.

Once
again, I don’t
do school.

She
finally stop talking,
she was about to say something, but the bell interrupted her.

After
class, I was walking
through the cafeteria, my instincts were on haywire, anything could
happen, a food fight, an assassin comes and stabs me in the ear, I
know it’s strange, but it could happen. I saw a shadow behind
me crouched down, I freaked out so I quickly turned around, and put
my hand on his neck, and stomach, and flipped them.

A
crowd began to form,
Blake quickly pushed me away from the crowd.

“Calm
down.” He
said.

I
nodded. I sat by Sheila.

“What
was that?”

“Oh,
since I took
karate for nine years, my instincts were sort of out there.”
I
explained.

“Did
you meet Blake
in karate?” she asked.

Blake
and I nodded. Well it
wasn’t a complete lie.

“You’re
not
eating?” Sheila asked.

“Nope.”
I
replied.

I
was used to it, sometimes
we went out on missions that lasted weeks, and most of the time, and
there was never time to eat. “Well, we have one class left,
since it’s a half day.” Sheila explained. We sat
there in
silence for the rest of lunch.

Then
during our last class,
the teacher just let us talk.

~RIING~
Yes! I’m
finally getting out of this prison.

Blake
and I decided to take
the bus home, what a big mistake that was.

“So,
Scarlett…would
you mind if I went out with Blake?” Donna asked.

“Uhh,
no, but it’s
not my decision.”

“Scarlett,
you do
know you’re not pretty enough for him, or anyone
actually.”

I
really just want to choke
her right now.

“Actually,
Scarlett’s
not just pretty, she’s beautiful, any guy, would be lucky to
have her, but she’s mine.” Blake said.

Even
though he was just
saying that, my face was so red.

Donna
looked so mad; she
quickly turned around in her seat.

“Thanks.”

“No
problem.”
He replied.

I
was still out of it,
thinking about what he said, while my heart pounded, may I mention
loudly in my chest.

“Scar?”
Blake
asked.

“Huh?”

“We’re
here.”
He said, looking at me like I was from Mars.

“Oh.”
I
replied.

We
got off the bus, and
walked into my Aunt Diana’s house.

“Oh
good, you’re
home. Scarlett, can you drive?” she asked.

I
nodded.

“Good,
can you please
go to the grocery store for me?” she asked.

“Sure.”
I said.
She smiled at me, and handed me a list, and 40 bucks, with the car
keys.

“Blake,
you come with
me, because I’m going to have a few things, so you can do the
heavy lifting.” Aunt Diana said. she walked out, and into the
other car.

“I
meant what I said
on the bus, you’re mine.” Blake said, he winked at
me,
and left.

I
just stood there,
blushing, and smiling like an idiot.

‘Pull
yourself
together, Scarlett!’ I thought to
myself.

I
got into the car and
drove to the local Publix.

Since
I’ve never
actually been in a Publix before, I got really lost, which is really
embarrassing. I went up to the cash register, the cashier looked
really familiar, I looked down at his wrist, and saw the tattoo.
‘Are
you kidding me?’ I paid him the money, and left making it
seem like I never saw his tattoo. I put the groceries into the trunk;
I started the car, and made my way out of the parking lot.

Red
light. My phone started
to ring.

“Hello?”
“Hey
Scarlett, how’s the shopping going?” Aunt Di asked.

“Good,
uh can I talk
to Blake?” I asked.

“Mhmm,
Blake, she
wants to talk to you, oh stop blushing.” She teased. I rolled
my eyes at how she was always teasing us.

“Hey
Scar.”

“So,
you guys done?”
I asked.

“Yeah,
we’re
about to drive back now.”

Green
light. I started to
drive into through the intersection, all of a sudden a car crashed
into me from the front.

“Scar?
You okay, what
happened?” Blake asked.

“Nothing,
just an
acciden-“I was interrupted from a car hitting me from behind,
I
cursed under my breath.

“Scar?”
Blake
asked.

All
of a sudden, the car
flipped over, and a piece of the windshield got into my arm, which
made it go limp. “Yes, she’s dead, alright
bye.”

Those
bastards are trying
to kill me. Once he hung up the phone, I crawled out the window.

“Impossible,
no
normal person would survive that.” He said.

“Who
said I was
normal?” I asked.

Chapter
5

Author

“Scarlett’s
in
trouble.” Blake said. He got into the driver’s
seat, and
Diana got into the passenger’s seat. He raced to the Publix,
and quickly stopped to see Scarlett standing there, with glass in her
arm, and some blood running down it, and a small cut on her right
cheek, he quickly got out the car, and ran to her. “Who said
I
was normal?” Scarlett asked.

Then
out of nowhere,
someone in dark clothing, stood in between Scarlett, and a guy who
called and said Scarlett was dead.

The
assassasin lunged at
Scarlett; Blake flipped over Scarlett, and kicked him in the face,
successfully breaking their nose. They fell to the ground. Scarlett
stood still, for a moment, then she sort of fell forward, Blake
luckily caught her, before any more damage was done.

Diana
walked over to the
assassasin on the ground, their eyes widened in fear.

She
put her foot on his
neck.

“If
you or any other
assassin or hit man hurts Scarlett, or Blake, I will personally kill
you.” She said.

The
ambulance came, and put
Scarlett on a gurney.

“Sorry,
family only.”

“You
have to let me,
I’m her b-boyfriend.” He lied.

“Fine,
just stay out
of the way.” Blake nodded, as he and Diana got into the
ambulance.

They
took Scarlett out of
the O.R., to remove the glass, and give her stitches.

“I’m
going to
go talk to the doctor about Scarlett.” Diana said.

“There’s
no
need, Scar’s fine.” He said.

“I
know, I just need
to know when she’ll be able to leave soon.” Diana
said.

Blake
sat there, while
Diana was consulting with the doctors, whether Scarlett could leave
or not. Scarlett woke up.

“Hey.”
Scarlett
said.

“Oh,
God please don’t
do that to me again.” Blake said, hugging her.

“Hey,
the doctor said
they’ll keep you overnight for observation, but other than
that, you’ll be fine.”

“Oh,
okay Aunt Di you
can go home.” Scarlett said.

“Are
you sure?”
she asked.

Scarlett
nodded.

“Yeah,
I’ll
stay with her.” Blake said.

“OH,
okay I’ll
just you lovebirds alone.” She said, smirking.

She
left, and Scarlett
flushed with embarrassment.

“You
okay?” he
asked.

“Yeah,
I’m just
afraid, if I fall asleep, an assassasin will come on, and put venom
in my IV.” Scarlett said jokingly.

Blake
chuckled then said,
“You know that’s not going to happen.”

“Yeah,
but they
always do the unexpected.” Scarlett said.

Blake
nodded.

“Well,
since we’re
staying overnight, the least we could do is get comfortable.”
Blake said.

Scarlett
scooted over, and
Blake lay down next to her.

“Goodnight
Scar.”

“Goodnight
Blake.”

Blake
kissed the top of her
head. Scarlett laid her head down on his chest, and drifted to sleep.
Scarlett began to have a nightmare. She saw everything that haunted
her, the flashbacks, the emotional, and physical pain, they were
taught to not show emotion, no crying, no love, no compassion, or
pity, and her brain generated one of her worst fears, everyone around
her started dying. She began to talk in her sleep.

Blake
sighed, and said,
“Can I tell you something kind of embarrassing?”

Scarlett
wiped her tears,
and said yeah.

He
sighed. “Okay
remember when we first met, I had an average crush on you, and now
it’s not so average…”

“R-really?”

“I
probably shouldn’t
have said that.”

“Well
you made it
kind of clear that you liked me, when you said, I was yours.”
She said.

“Right,
so do you-

“You
don’t have
to ask me that question; you should already know the answer.”
Scarlett said.

“So
that makes us…”

“Boyfriend
and
girlfriend? Yes, yes it does.” Scarlett said.

They
started to lean in,
closer and closer until they were only centimeters a part,
Scarlett’s
heart was pounding, but the door flew open.

“Oh,
I’m sorry;
I just came in here to change your gauges.” She said.

Scarlett
was blushing
furiously, with her head down. The nurse was smiling at them, while
carefully wrapping the gauges around her arm, and stomach.

“Okay,
all done.”
She said. The nurse left the room, and closed the door.

“Okay,
where were
we?” he asked.

“I
don’t know
you tell me?” Scarlett replied, with a smirk.

“Well
I think I was
about to kiss you.” He said.

Scarlett
blushed at the
thought of it.

They
leaned in, “Scarlett,
are you okay?” Sheila asked, bursting through the door.

“Oh
for God’s
sake.” Blake said. He pulled Scarlett by her waist, and
kissed
her right there in front of everyone, Sheila, Spencer, and a few
nurses.She
grabbed her phone, and
took pictures. They broke away, “I’ve wanted to do
that
for six years!” he said. “When did you two
meet?”
Sheila asked.

“When
we were eight.”
Blake said. Scarlett couldn’t say anything, she was still in
shock.

“Oh,
and you Aunt
Diana said to give you two these, she said she didn’t want to
come and interrupt anything important to your teenage lives.”
Scarlett put her head down, they shooed Sheila, and Spencer out the
room.

Scarlett
went into the
bathroom, and got ready. “I’m done.”

Blake
went into the
bathroom, and got ready.

“Hey,
I just
realized, how are we going to get to school?” Blake asked.

“Well,
I’m not
getting into another car, but we could do the rooftops?”
Scarlett suggested.

“Wouldn’t
that
blow our cover?” Blake asked.

“Not
if we’re
wearing hoodies.” Scarlett said, handing him one.

Blake
simply nodded, while
putting it on.

Scarlett
had hers on
already.

“Ready?”
Blake
asked. Scarlett nodded. They crawled through the window, and onto the
roof.

“Okay,
the school is
only seven rooftops away.” Scarlett explained.

“It’s
the only
good thing about being or used to be an assassasin.” Blake
said. They jumped from the hospital, then onto a nearby McDonalds,
and a few hotels. They finally got inside, and Scarlett took off her
hoodie, and put it in her locker. Blake took off his hoodie, and
Scarlett caught a glimpse of his abs, while thinking ‘Oh my
gosh, I saw his abs… again, I hope he doesn’t see
me
blushing.’

They
walked to homeroom,
but Mrs. Bradford wasn’t there, there was a woman, Light
brown
hair, going down her back.

“Mom?”
Scarlett
muttered.

The
woman turned around,
and she looked exactly like Scarlett.

The
class looked from
Scarlett and to the teacher, and back at Scarlett doing the
comparison.

“Oh,
I’m sorry;
you just look like my mom.” Scarlett said.

She
pulled out a photo of
her and her parents when she was 7, and showed it to her.

She
nodded in reply, and
began teaching.

“It’s
her.”
Scarlett said.

“You
think so?”
Blake asked.

“Yeah,
what other
explanation is there, at the airport, when the assassasin said my
real father.” Scarlett said.

“Hi,
I’m Mrs.
Anderson, but you can call me Priscilla.” She said. She gave
us
our assignment, and we worked in silence.

The
bell finally rang, and
she held me after class.

“I
guess you figured
it out, Scarlett.”

“Yeah,
but I thought
you, and dad died.”

“Well,
we almost did,
the thing is when we had you, we were assassasins, and when we were
in that car accident, I was able to get you out of the car in time,
we survived, but you would’ve been in far too much danger if
we
kept you, so we gave you to the clan, so they could raise you, and
give the amount of knowledge, and training we had, I’m
sorry.”
She explained.

“So,
I wasn’t
adopted into the assassin life, I was born into it, but you
weren’t
going to train me.” Scarlett said.

“No.”
Priscilla
said.

“Why
does he want me
now?” she asked.

“Who?”
Priscilla asked.

“Dad,
he sent someone
to watch me at the airport, he made it seem like it was a normal guy
asking me to a party, but I said no, then we started fighting, and he
had the tattoo on his wrist.” Scarlett explained.

“It’s
just that
me and your father went on separate missions, and he became MIA, and
I haven’t heard from him since.” Priscilla
explained.

“Where
are you living
now?” she asked.

“With
my Aunt Diana.”
Scarlett said.

“You
live with Diana?
How is she doing?” She asked eagerly.

“Yeah,
she’s
fine.” Scarlett replied.

Afterwards,
Blake waited
for Scarlett outside of the classroom, and he noticed Donna staring
at him intently, then she winked at him, he gave her an awkward wave,
Scarlett finally came out of the classroom, she noticed Donna and
waved, but in reply Donna rolled her eyes, and walked away.

“Gosh,
who peed in
her cheerios?” Scarlett said.

They
walked into their next
class, and Scarlett was immediately ambushed with questions.

“Oh
my gosh, Scarlett
are you okay?”

“Y-yeah
I’m
fine.”

“So,
I heard you, and
Blake are dating now, is he a good kisser?” ONE OF THEM ASKED.

“I-
I don’t
know, I don’t have anything to compare it to.”
Scarlett
said.

“But
did you like
it?” she asked again.

Scarlett
nodded, Blake
started blush, as much as a tomato.

They
quickly got to their
seats; the teacher said they could do whatever they want, since they
don’t pay her enough to care.

“Sheila.”
Scarlett said.

“Yeah?”

“So
did Spencer tell
you how he felt?” Scarlett asked.

“No.”
she
replied.

Scarlett
then called
Spencer over.

“No!
What are you
doing?” Sheila asked, as Scarlett whispered in
Spencer’s
ear, He began to blush, and Sheila put her head in her hands.

“Is
that true?”
he asked.

Sheila
nodded.

She
began to explain when
her crush started then she dozed off into hoping that it
wouldn’t
be awkward between them. She looked down, not making any eye contact
with him.

He
lifted her chin up, and
kissed her.

“Whoo!”
Scarlett exclaimed, she sort of started to dance, but then realized
she can’t, so she quietly sat down.

A
girl dragged her away
from the crowd.

“Be
careful.”

“Be
careful about
what?” Scarlett asked.

“They
always play a
prank on the new kids, since it’s your second day.”
She
said.

“Who’s
playing
the prank?” She asked.

“Usually
just a group
of people, but it’s mostly Donna.” She warned.

Scarlett
nodded. She told
Blake about the pranks, even though she knew she was the main target.

They
had P.E. next, ‘it
might be the perfect spot for humiliation’ Scarlett thought.

Chapter
6

Blake
Tanaka

We
went into the locker rooms, and changed when we walked out I
saw Scarlett pleading with the coach to participate.

“Fine,
but take it easy.”

“Thank
you so much!” she replied.

The
girls were playing badminton, while we played basketball, and
the cheerleading team was practicing. I was kind of watching Scarlett
play, and one of her friends fell while hitting the shuttlecock.
Donna and the other cheerleaders were laughed. Donna walked over to
her and said “Nice move ballerina, how’s that floor
taste?” Scarlett rolled her eyes, and helped her up.

“I’m
going to go find it.” She said.

I
overheard Donna taunting her.

“Come
on, Sheila, it’s only a back flip off the
tower.”

“Just
leave her alone, okay?”

“It’s
my right to recruit talent, when I see it, and
Sheila has what it takes to be a cheerleader.”

“So,
you’re going to do a back tuck off the tower,
what’s the big deal?” she asked.

Oh
no.

“If
you think it’s so easy, how about you try it?”
she asked.

“Fine.”
Scarlett said.

“This
should be good.” Donna said. Something about
her, reminds me of Monica.

Scarlett
climbed onto the tower, and flipped backwards off of it,
and landed on her feet.

I
walked over to Scarlett.

The
gym cheered. Donna had a hint of jealousy in her eyes. Donna
did a couple of back hand springs. Scarlett retaliated, she did a few
back hand spring, and somehow pushed off with her feet, and managed
to do a cartwheel while airborne. She landed on her feet.

“Guess
you lost.” Scarlett said

Donna
glared at her, and stormed off.

“Really?”
I asked.

“What?
I had to, she irks me so much.” She replied.

I
kissed her forehead, and went back to the game.

When
Donna glared at Scarlett, I immediately knew who it was, and
I know who was responsible for the murders. Donna is Monica.

Chapter
7

Eve
Suzuki

I
need to find a way to
save Scarlett from Monica.

I
actually appreciate a
normal life, I ended up in Florida. Scarlett always wanted to come
here.

“Taxi!”
I
yelled. The taxi driver stopped, I told him to take me to a nearby
hotel.

He
turned on the radio, and
it did a breaking news report.

“Breaking
News, there
have been numerous deaths appearing around the state of Florida, the
killer leaves no evidence, but leaves an M
in their blood, more of these
murders are happening around Fort Lauderdale, there was a cryptic
message, in ancient Japanese, we were able to decipher it. It says
'スカーレットスズキは、あなたが私の次の目標だ.

“Which
means Scarlett
Suzuki, you’re my next target.”

Okay,
okay I know this is
off topic, but I know I’m not the only one that thinks that
it’s just as creepy as A from Pretty Little Liars.

“Hey
driver, take me
to Fort Lauderdale.” I said.

“Are
you sure?”
he asked.

“Yes,
I have to save
my sister.” I replied.

He
quickly drove me to Fort
Lauderdale, I thought about to going to Aunt Diana’s house,
but
I figured Scarlett would be there.So
I checked into a hotel.
I was walking up to my room, when this guy came, and started hitting
on me, he was clearly drunk.

“So…”
he
said, while ruining my personal space.

“If
you know what’s
good for you, I suggest you back away.” I threatened.

“Ohh
feisty.”
He said.

I
rolled my eyes, and
flipped him, and walked to my room.

Being
raised as an
assassasin, sort of makes you really cautious, so I technically woke
up every 5 minutes, but I finally got some sleep.

“Eve?”
Scarlett asked.

“Monica,
what are
you doing here?” she asked.

“I’m
here
for you.” She replied.

Scarlett’s
eyes
burned with fury. Monica ran towards her, and nearly stabbed her,
Scarlett pulled out a hidden blade, and hit Monica with the butt of
her blade.

They
were in an all out
fight, it seems like they were going on for only a few minutes, but
it really has been a few hours. Scarlett got the better of Monica,
and held Monica’s sword to her neck, but Scarlett spared her,
Scarlett started to leave, Monica had a ghoulish smile on her face,
she grabbed two daggers, and stabbed Scarlett in the back, and
kidney. Scarlett had the sudden urge to scream, but didn’t
want
to give her the benefit. She pulled out the daggers, and looked
straight into Monica’s eyes. “Pathetic.”
She said.

Scarlett
dropped the
daggers, and held up her fists. They began to fight hand- to-hand
combat.

Soon
Monica began to
grow tired of the fight, so in a blink of an eye, her blade was going
through Scarlett, it was going slow to make it even more painful...

She
then used Scarlett’s
blood to make a single M
on the wall, and left.

Chapter
8

Scarlett
Suzuki

I
felt great, standing up
to Donna like that.

Anyway,
I was walking down
the hall, when someone grabs me and pulls me into a dark room.

All
of a sudden, I was in
full assassasin mode, I grabbed one of their arms, and threw them
across the room, I started to fight every single one of them, but one
of them found an opening, and managed to punch me in the stomach, I
coughed up blood.

“Oh
my God…”
One of them muttered.

The
other one didn’t
care. They kicked me in the ribs.

“Stop
it, she’s
had enough.” They exclaimed.

But
one of them pushed the
other out the way, and I knew exactly who it was, I grabbed their
foot, and pushed them, then one of them lunged at me, and we crashed
through the window, to the courtyard. Everyone started to stare.

“Don’t
you know
it’s rude to stare?” I said.

I
grabbed Donna, and pulled
off her hood. “You’re really pathetic.”

Then
out of nowhere, Blake
comes up behind me, to see the blood on my shirt, in the stomach
area, and a huge bruise on my ribs. His eyes showed anger, and rage.
He helped me sit down. He walked over to Donna, but Kyle blocked his
way.

“What?
You think I
was going to hit her, trust me I’m not you.”
He said coldly.

“What
do you mean? We
were the ones that took most of the beating.” He objected.

Blake
started telling him
off, as I slowly bleed to death…

“What
I mean is, I’m
not some guy, who beats his girlfriend, and hits on other girls, yeah
I know your type, you take advantage of girls, and then the next day
act like they’re nothing to you, but let me tell you
something,
if you go anywhere near Scarlett, you’ll regret
it.” He
muttered the last part, so only Kyle heard him. Blake turned around,
and Kyle got mad, and threw a punch, Blake caught it, and sort of
threw him towards a tree.

He
lifted me up, I insisted
he would at least let me walk but he didn’t listen.

He
took me to the nurse,
but she wasn’t there, so he sat me down on the bed, couch
thing
in there. “No offense, Scar, but you need to cool it on those
cookies.” He said.

“Shut
up.” I
said, I was about punch him in the arm, but I put my arm back down in
pain.

“Come
on.” He
said.

He
removed the pieces of
glass from my back, and put an ice pack, to my ribs, and took a good
look at my stomach. “It’s not that bad, just needs
pressure, and a really big bandage.” He said, he applied
pressure to it, and he told me to lie still, and kept me warm, and
put a sterile dressing over it, and when the nurse came back, she
fixed me, she asked questions, but we made our way around it.
Usually afterwards a normal person would have to be
rushed to the hospital, but seriously who said I was normal?

“Thanks.”
I
said.

“No
problem.”
He replied.

“I
still can’t
believe Donna would go so far.” I said.

Blake
nodded.

“High
school sucks.”
He said.

“Whoever
said high
school is the best four years of your life, it really
isn’t.”
I acknowledged.

Afterwards,
we ended up
sleeping in the nurse’s office.

“Eve?”
I
asked.

“Donna,
what are
you doing here?” she asked.

“I’m
here
for you.” She replied.

My
eyes burned with
fury. Donna ran towards her, and nearly stabbed her, I pulled out a
hidden blade, and hit Donna with the butt of her blade.

They
were in an all out
fight, it seems like they were going on for only a few minutes, but
it really has been a few hours. Scarlett got the better of Donna, and
held Donna’s sword to her neck, but I spared her, I started
to
leave, Donna had a ghoulish smile on her face, she grabbed two
daggers, and stabbed me in the back, and kidney. I had the sudden
urge to scream, but didn’t want to give her the benefit. I
pulled out the daggers, and looked straight into Donna’s
eyes.
“Pathetic.” She said.

I
dropped the daggers,
and held up my fists. We began to fight hand- to-hand combat.

Soon
Donna began to grow
tired of the fight, so in a blink of an eye, her blade was going
through me, it was going slow to make it even more painful...

She
then used my blood
to make a single M
on the wall, and left.

I
tried to wake up, but it
just transferred me to another dream.

There
were all these
flashes of images of me standing outside of Dad’s office
trying
to figure out what he’s doing, seeing Eve come out in all
those
bruises. It flashed into the inside of the room, he pushed Eve into a
bookcase, and beat her up, and bruised her ribs, and twisted her arm,
and raped her. It was like I was reliving what was going on, I could
feel her pain, her fear, his breath was up against her face, when he
grabbed the collar of her shirt, alcohol. He slammed her against the
wall again. She quickly got up, her hair was messed up, her clothes
were torn, and she was bleeding.

I
realized I was crying in
my sleep. I opened my eyes, and quickly wiped my tears, and realized
the position we were in, his arm was draped around my waist, and my
head on his chest.

Blake
woke up and realized
the position we were in, and his cheeks turned beet red.

“Scarlett,
Blake?”
Sheila asked.

“Come
on, school’s
over, the nurse told me to get you two.” She said.

We
quickly got up, and
walked home. We walked in to see my mom and Aunt Diana sitting there.

“Oh,
y’know my
wound reopened, and I crashed through a window, and I bruised my
rib.” I replied.

“Who
did this to
you?” Mom asked.

“Donna,
it was
supposed to be a prank, just to scare me, but Donna took it as an
opportunity, to attack.” I explained.

“I
still can’t
believe they do that stupid pranking tradition, even the teachers do
it, and I accidentally gave one of them a broken nose.”

Blake
and I nodded in
agreement. I was still pretty, but I didn’t want to fall
asleep, I was afraid I would have that dream again. I leaned on the
wall. Blake and I were having a pretty good conversation, and I
realized he was getting closer. So I closed to brace myself, but to
utter disappointment, I got splashed in the face with water. I opened
my eyes to see Blake on the ground, laughing. I glared him intently.
He stopped laughing, I chased him, until we ended up outside, I
jumped on his back, and I ended up on the ground, with Blake pinning
me down, while smirking, my arm pulled out of his grasp, and hit him
on the arm.

“OW!”

“How
are you going to
do that, and not kiss
me?” I said.

“So,
you want me to
kiss you?” he asked.

I
blushed, and then nodded
quickly.

His
lips crashed into mine,
and yes I will admit this I literally felt sparks (Yeah, yeah I know
it’s girly, but it’s how I felt.)

I
think I was in shock,
just a little bit, because afterwards, I completely blanked out, and
started blushing.

We
went inside, we sat at
the dinner table, I looked up from my lasagna, to see my mother, and
Aunt Diana staring at me.

“What?”
I
asked.

“Oh,
nothing.”
They said in unison.

I
eyed them suspiciously,
and then looked over to Blake, who only shrugged his shoulders.

I
looked back over to them
and they chuckled.

“What’s
so
funny?” I asked.

“Nothing,
sweetie,
it’s just, nothing.”

We
sat there in silence for
the rest of dinner, mostly because Blake and I were in our little
world. Afterwards, I went to bed. I immediately drifted to dream
land.

I
saw Monica, when she
was younger, then I saw Donna, sure I have my suspicions about Donna
being Monica, we never did find her body. But something about Donna
seemed a little off about her. Those thoughts wandered throughout
my mind.

My
mind wandered off. I
realized I’m dreaming again.

We’re
on the roof,
and Donna or Monica started attacking us, especially Blake, he
suffered from numerous cuts, and lashes, She was about to finish him
off, but I got in the way, I closed my eyes to brace myself, but it
surprise, I see Eve facing me, and the blade went through her back,
and made its way to her chest, she smiled weakly at me, as the tears
went down her face,

“S-sorry
Scar,
h-hope I got your forgiveness.” She said.

Her
lifeless body fell
to the ground. “No.” I said, hoping it was all a
dream.

She
was…dead. My
eyes burned with fury, as I looked at Donna, she had that same look
on her face, the day at the cliff, when she noticed me, and she
trembled.

“You’re
dead
to me.” I said coldly. It felt
like I was having an outer body experience. I literally saw myself
lunge at Donna, and started attacking her, faster than I usually do,
without actually harming them. I hit Donna pretty hard, she fell to
the ground, but she was conscious. I wasn’t thinking, I
wasn’t…me, I was them, the people, I tried so hard
to
leave, hoping they wouldn’t affect me, but they clearly did,
I
was looking for blood. I was about to finish her off with her own
blade, which had my sister’s blood on it, the blade was up to
her neck, but then I thought to myself ‘ What am I
doing?’
I plunged the blade into the ground only inches away from her chest.
Blake came up behind me, and wrapped his arms around my arms; I sunk
down to the ground, and broke down into tears. It was like he
reminded me that I wasn’t them, and I wasn’t going
to end
up like them.

I
woke up, not making a
single move. I finally got myself to get out of bed, and got ready
for school, I didn’t want to go, I didn’t want to
relive
what I just saw, I had this aching in my chest, that it could happen,
that it will happen. During the car ride to school, I was
completely out of it, I kept thinking about the dream, everything
that happened.

“Scar,
you okay?”

“Yeah,
I’m
fine.” I lied. I wasn’t fine, not at all.

“You’re
lying.”
He said.

“What!?
Pshhh no I’m
not lying, oh look we’re here!” I said, quickly
getting
out of the car. I walked down the hallway, trying to stay out of
everyone’s way, just to be dragged into a dark room, and
pushed
and locked into a closet.

“Seriously?”
I
asked. There was a little crack in the closet door, and all of a
sudden Donna drags Blake into the room, and starts kissing him. When
will she give up? Anger boiled inside of me, I knew I could knock
down the door, but I didn’t, I couldn’t.

Blake
pushed her away.

“Stop
it.” He
said.

“Please
get this
through your sick, twisted brain; I’m in LOVE with
Scarlett.”
He said.

“Assassasins
aren’t
supposed to love.” Donna replied.

“I
know who you are,
Monica. Yeah thought I wouldn’t figure it out. I know it was
you that caused the accident. You will stop at nothing to see
Scarlett dead, but I’m not going to let that
happen.” He
said, before leaving the room.

I
can’t believe I
couldn’t figure it out sooner, I mean I had my suspicions,
but
never fully figured it out. Monica left the room, and I escaped from
the closet, without breaking the door down. I went to my locker,
really upset about Monica, but happy that Blake loves me, he LOVES
me. I opened my locker, acting like nothing happened; a note fell to
the ground. I picked it up and read it.

‘Meet
me on the roof. ~Casanova.’

Casanova
is a codename I
gave Eve.

I
had immediate eye contact
with Blake, and signaled to him to meet me on the roof.

I
went up the stairway,
with Blake close behind. “Scarlett, I have to tell you
something, it’s sort of bad news and worse news.”

“Don’t
worry, I
know Donna is actually Monica, and that she kissed you, I saw and
heard everything.” I explained.

He
nodded, and we made our
way up the stairway onto the roof.

“Eve?”
I asked.

“Scar,
are you okay?”
she asked.

“Yeah,
I’m
fine. What are you doing here?” I asked.

“I
came to tell you
about Monica, and Dad.” She explained.

“I
know…everything
about Monica, and what Dad did to you.”

“How
do you know
about that?” she asked.

“I
had a dream, I saw
everything.” I explained.

“Also,
I’m
sorry for stabbing you with the katana.” Eve said awkwardly.

“Aww,
how cute, a
family reunion, I guess I have to ruin it.” She said

“Hey
Scar, since I
can’t have Blake, neither can you.”

She
lunged towards Blake,
and my dream was coming true, she slashed, and cut him, her blade
grazed his arms. I ran in front of him, and blocked her way, I was
hoping my dream wouldn’t come true, I was hoping so much,
that
it wouldn’t happen.

But
it did, I saw Eve in
front of me.

“S-sorry
Scar, h-hope
I got your forgiveness.” She said.

Her
lifeless body fell to
the ground. “No.” I said, hoping it was all a dream.

She
was…dead. My
eyes burned with fury, as I looked at Donna, she had that same look
on her face, the day at the cliff, when she noticed me, and she
trembled.

“You’re
dead
to me.” I said coldly. It felt like I
was having an outer body experience. I literally saw myself lunge at
Donna, and started attacking her, faster than I usually do, without
actually harming them. I hit Donna pretty hard, she fell to the
ground, but she was conscious. I wasn’t thinking, I
wasn’t…me,
I was them, the people, I tried so hard to leave, hoping they
wouldn’t affect me, but they clearly did, I was looking for
blood. I was about to finish her off with her own blade, which had my
sister’s blood on it, the blade was up to her neck, but then
I
thought to myself ‘ What am I doing?’ I plunged the
blade
into the ground only inches away from her chest. Blake came up behind
me, and wrapped his arms around my arms; I sunk down to the ground,
and broke down into tears. It was like he reminded me that I
wasn’t
them, and I wasn’t going to end up like them. It did end up
like my dream, but I was going to change it, I’m not going to
let Eve die like this, so Blake held her in his arms, and we jumped
from roof to roof, until we ended up at the emergency room.

Epilogue

Blake
Tanaka

Eve
was in the Operating
room, and Scarlett was pacing frantically.

“Scar.”
She
kept pacing, completely blocking me out.

“Scar.”
She
still tuned me out, I got up, and put my hands on her shoulders, and
looked her straight in her Ember green eyes.

“Scar,
she’s
going to be fine, as crazy as she’s, she’s a
fighter,
don’t worry.” I said.

She
nodded her head.

“Eve
Suzuki?”
the doctor said.

Scarlett
and I walked over
to him.

“I
don’t know
how to say this, but Eve’s gone.” He said.

I
looked over to Scarlett
with a worried yet sympathetic look, she looked so…broken.

“I
mean her body is
gone…” he said.

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